Английский Этимологический словарь - mahogany
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Mahogany
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~ n 1 a type of hard reddish brown wood used for making furniture, or the tree that produces this wood 2 a dark, reddish brown colour - mahogany adj ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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Mahogany is a dark reddish-brown wood that is used to make furniture. ...mahogany tables and chairs. N-UNCOUNT: oft N n ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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noun (plural -nies) Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1660 1. the wood of any of various chiefly tropical trees (family Meliaceae, the ~ family): a. (1) the durable yellowish-brown to reddish-brown usually moderately hard and heavy wood of a West Indian tree (Swietenia mahagoni) that is widely used for cabinetwork and fine finish work (2) a wood similar to ~ from a congeneric tropical American tree (especially S. macrophylla) b. (1) the rather hard heavy usually odorless wood of any of several African trees (genus Khaya) (2) the rather lightweight cedar-scented wood of any of several African trees (genus Entandrophragma) that varies in color from pinkish to deep reddish brown 2. any of various woods resembling or substituted for ~ obtained from trees of the ~ family 3. a tree that yields ~ 4. a moderate reddish brown ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. (pl. -ies) 1 a a reddish-brown wood used for furniture. b the colour of this. 2 any tropical tree of the genus Swietenia, esp. S. mahagoni, yielding this wood. Etymology: 17th c.: orig. unkn. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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махагониевое красное дерево, акажу (Swietenia mahagoni) – African mahogany – Australian mahogany – false mahogany – Irish mahogany – Kentucky mahogany – mountain mahogany – Philippine mahogany – red mahogany – swamp mahogany – tanguile mahogany – white mahogany ...Англо-русский Русско-английский биологический словарь
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1. бот. красное дерево (Swietenia mahagoni) mahogany furniture —- мебель красного дерева 2. разг. стол (особ. обеденный) Id: mahogany bug (flat) —- клоп Id: to have (to put) one.'s feet, (to stretch one's legs) under smb.'s mahogany —- пользоваться чьим-л. гостеприимством, жить на чей-л. счет; обедать с кем-л. ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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furniture мебель красного дерева MAHOGANY noun 1) красное дерево 2) обеденный стол; to put/stretch/have ones knees/feet under smb. s mahogany - обедать у кого-л., пользоваться чьим-л. гостеприимством; жить на чей-л. счет 3) коричневато-красный цвет 4) attr. сделанный из красного дерева; - mahogany furniture 5) attr. коричневато-красный (о цвете) ...Англо-русский словарь
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